Light Brings Salt
Volume 3, Issue 29 July 17, 2005
Iron Range Bible
Church
Dedicated to the Systematic Exposition of the Word of God
Dear
American soldier in
Dennis Prager
I
am writing to you simply as a fellow American. In
just about every way, I am quite typical. I am a married man with three
children, believe in God and love my country. I differ, however, from many
Americans in a couple of ways. First, my vocation -- radio talk show host and
columnist -- makes me a professional communicator. So I might be able to say
things that most other Americans feel but could not communicate quite as
clearly. Second, and more important, I suspect that more than some Americans,
though hardly more than President Bush and his administration, I am keenly
aware of the fragility of civilization, of the monumental evil you are
fighting, and of the historic mission of
For
these reasons, I am writing to you. Though you may already know everything I am
about to say, I need to say it for those of you who, after seeing fellow
soldiers blown up or severely injured, may sometimes wonder whether these
sacrifices are worth it.
So, first, let me
set the record straight. Not since World War II have the stakes been this
great. This is a war for the future of civilization every bit as much as the
war against German Nazism and Japanese Fascism was. If we had lost that war,
the world would have devolved into barbarism. If we lose this one, the same will
happen.
It
was a war for civilization then; the war against Islamic Fascism is such a war
today. Of course, there are
hundreds of millions of fine people among the world's 1.3 billion Muslims. But
that is, unfortunately, as irrelevant to understanding today's war as the fact
that there were millions of fine Germans living in Hitler's
It
is not the fine Muslims who rule most Muslim countries, some of which are among
the cruelest on earth. It is not the fine Muslims who dominate the Islamic
schools around the world that teach that it is right to subjugate women and to
slit Christians' and Jews' throats. It is not the fine Muslims who wish to
impose a violent, hate-filled religion on others. It is not the fine Muslims
who burned 13 churches in
And
sadly, most of the fine Muslims, including those in
Second,
don't be discouraged by
As
for
Third,
we Americans are relatively alone because from our founding we have believed
that we have a mission to better the world. And for this we are hated. We are
not hated for our power; we are hated for our values and our sense of chosenness
-- just as the never powerful Jews have long been hated for their values and
their chosenness.
In
sum, you are carrying the great burden of history on your shoulders every day
you serve in
We
pray for you not only because you are our sons and daughters risking your
lives, but because if God is good, and if we humans can discern between good
and evil, you are doing God's work. It is as clear as that. No American war has
ever been clearer.
©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Today
the fertile and well-populated
Whilst
But
after IMU insurgency in 2000, the government further tightened the reins on unregistered religious groups.
Thousands of Muslims allegedly associated with Wahhabis,
IMU or Hizb ut-Tahrir and
their off-shoots were subsequently arrested, creating considerable distress,
hardship and anger in the community.
Two
political ideologies are presently competing for the allegiance of
Islamic terror and insurgency have escalated in
On 5
July, the last legal Protestant church in the autonomous Karakalpakstan
republic in north-western
Forum
18 also reports that Pastors Nikolai Shevchenko and Sergei Khripunov of
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